Christian Andreacchio Autopsy Result – How Was He Murdered?
Christian Andreacchio’s parents filed a complaint against Meridian’s chief administrative officer on Tuesday, accusing him of making their son’s autopsy photos available to the public.
According to the Meridian Star, Richie McAlister was charged with carelessness, deliberate infliction of mental distress, and invasion of privacy by Todd and Rae Andreacchio.
According to Andreacchios, McAlister, on information and belief, acquired a copy of the investigation file from a source other than the Attorney General’s office, according to the lawsuit.
McAlister asked visitors to come to his office to see the autopsy photos and then analyze them, leading him to infer that Christian Andreacchio took his own life; the lawsuit continued.
On February 26, 2014, police from the Meridian Police Department discovered Christian Andreacchio, 21, slumped over his bathtub in the bathroom of his apartment upstairs.
He had suffered a gunshot wound to the head. His death was judged to be a suicide by the department following a 45-minute investigation and autopsy.
However, Rae Andreacchio, the mother of Andreacchio, believed that her son’s death was not a suicide.
The parents sought legal action
A jury trial is demanded in the case submitted by Andreacchio’s parents. The Meridian Star contacted McAlister for comment, but no calls were returned.
The lawsuit was reported in the Meridian Star with the statement, “His reasons for these extreme efforts are unknown to the Andreacchio’s, but they now must endure daily the knowledge that the graphic evidence of their most private and personal grief has simply become Ritchie McAlister’s public water cooler.”
A jury trial is demanded in the case submitted by Andreacchio’s parents. The Meridian Star contacted McAlister for comment, but no calls were returned.
In a separate lawsuit, Andreacchio’s parents charged Hattiesburg resident Frankie Wagner with publishing photographs of Andreacchio’s autopsy online and enticing viewers to reject the hypothesis of homicide.
According to the Meridian Star, ‘Wagner allegedly circulated pictures of Andreacchio among his acquaintances and asserted that everything received through a Freedom of Information Act request is public record.’
He claimed that Mississippi might disseminate the documents and images at its discretion.
The true-crime podcast Culpable, which relates the tale of his family’s efforts to identify the person responsible for his death, centers on Andreacchio.
Two persons were with Andreacchio in his apartment and were initially listed on the arrest warrants, according to evidence presented in the podcast.
A Lauderdale County grand jury declined to indict the two in relation to Christian’s death in 2017, though.
Forensic specialists concluded that the blood splatters in the bathroom and the placement of the bullet hole by the sink did not support the official account that Andreacchio had shot himself while he knelt over the bathtub.
